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Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Agritech Startup Agrify Fresh To Help Improve Farmer Livelihoods Across India
Upaya Social Ventures, which provides investment and support to early-stage enterprises creating dignified jobs for people in extreme poverty, announced its investment in Agrify Fresh, a Mumbai-based agritech startup with established market linkages to small and marginal farmers across four Indian states.

Upaya Social Ventures Invests In Agritech Startup Pasidi Panta To Create Quality Jobs For Indian Farmers
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced an investment in Pasidi Panta Private Limited (Pasidi Panta).

Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investment In Agritech Startup, Bharat Krushi Seva
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced its latest investment in Bharat Krushi Seva, an agritech startup based in Pune, Maharashtra.

Pasidi Panta: Helping Small Farmers Grow a “Golden Harvest”
Krishnaiah is the founder of Pasidi Panta, a company working with spice growers. Coming from an agricultural family, he has firsthand experience with the difficulties smallholder farmers face

Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investment In Coconut Processor Freshnet Farms
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced its investment in FreshNet Farms, an agribusiness based in Tamil Nadu whose founder, Senthil Kumar, has a vision to improve what he calls “the village economy” by creating efficiencies in the disorganized coconut value chain

ReThela: Helping Street Vendors Get Organized
Sunil Kumar is the founder of reThela, a social venture that aims to build an organized retail market infrastructure for fragmented and unorganized street vendors.

FreshNet Farms: Investing In The Village Economy
Senthil Kumar spent 15 years in the corporate sector, but felt like he was wasting his time. So he pledged all of his assets to focus on self-fulfillment and his vision to improve what he calls “the village economy.”

Gramshree Kisan: Empowering Farmers, Aggregating Technology, Creating Livelihood
When Aastha and a small team of four began building Gramshree Kisan they started with very little funding, but found an audience on YouTube

How Dignified Jobs Build Resilience For The Extreme Poor
Globally, research has shown that the extreme poor are greatly affected by the cause and effects of climate change. Air, water, and other sources of pollution are often the causes of climate change while extreme weather events such as heatwaves, drought, floods and hurricanes are the effects – both of which wreak havoc in the lives of the poor, often posing a threat to their livelihoods, health, and infrastructure. The poor are especially vulnerable as they lack coping mechanisms which are neither accessible nor affordable.

Amalfarm: Tracing Crops Back To Farmers To Improve Farmer Incomes
Entrepreneur, Rahul Prakash, is on a mission to connect consumers around the world with farmers in India through his company, Amalfarm.

Upaya Social Ventures Announces Investment In Indian Agtech Startup BharatRohan
Upaya Social Ventures (Upaya) today announced its investment in BharatRohan Airborne Innovations (BharatRohan), an agribusiness that offers end-to-end services for small and marginal farmers, such as drone-based farm advisory, agri-inputs, and market linkages

GramHeet: Empowering Farmers To Feed The World With Pride
The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra is infamous for the poor living and working conditions of its farmers.

Spudnik Farms: This Woman Entrepreneur's Farm-to-Table Business Mitigates Risks For Smallholder Farmers
Sumeet Kaur started her career as a lawyer with a tax-advising firm. Today, however, she is a farmer and the founder of Spudnik Farms, a subscription-based farm-to-table startup headquartered in Bangalore.

Bringing Life To The Soil And Jobs To The Community
Namrata Acharya never imagined she would become an entrepreneur. But, after learning about the struggles faced by farmers and rural villagers who rely on agriculture for their livelihood, Namrata knew she wanted to do something about it.

This Startup Provides Work For Families In One Of India’s Poorest Forested Regions
The Bastar se Bazaar Tak team is currently working with 240 of the poorest forest-dwelling households across seven villages in the region and plans to reach 1,000 households in the remotest villages of the district in 2022.